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Our Objectives

Our Objectives:

Rees Jeffreys Road Fund’s objectives are to encourage and promote better and safer roads, through design, engineering and aesthetics, leading to enhanced experience for everyone.

We do this principally by:

  • funding projects, research and events; and
  • awarding bursaries to individuals pursuing relevant professional qualifications. 
photo of stone plaque at roadside rest at Duncton Hill
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Roadside Rest – Duncton Hill

Our charitable Objects:

William Rees Jeffreys wanted to provide for his life’s work to be carried on after his death. His estate funded the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund which has the following charitable Objects:

  • To contribute to the cost of lectures, studies and scholarship with the aim of promoting improvement of the design and layout of public highways and adjoining land, and improve the coordination between designers, engineers and town planners.
  • To promote projects that improve the beauty and attractiveness of the roadside environment.
  • To encourage the improvement of existing, and provision of additional, public highways, bridges, tunnels, footpaths, verges, and cycleways to secure maximum safety and beauty; and
  • To support projects and initiatives that would demonstrably continue the life work of our founder, William Rees Jeffreys.
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Rees Jeffreys Road Fund today:

Today the Trustees of Rees Jeffreys Road Fund seek to achieve outcomes that benefit all road users and people impacted by roads.  The outcomes we tend to seek in the work that we fund includes:

  • Improved experience for road users, whether they are walking, wheeling, driving or a passenger. This might include improvements to safety but also increasing the pleasure or ease of mobility. This may include projects that seek to understand changing needs and behaviours of road users as well as influencing future behaviour.
  • Improvements in the way roads are provided, managed and maintained, their economic and environmental performance and the role roads play as part of an integrated transport approach.
  • Improvements in managing roads in a sustainable and aesthetical way, including how roads sit within the urban and natural landscape. This includes both resilience to, and contribution to the mitigation of, the impact of climate change.
  • Projects that support the capability and capacity of the highways and transport profession and nurture interest in highways-related careers, especially amongst under-represented groups.